Colonel Charles James (21 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Included. 3 books -- Tortures of the Tower of London. Abbott, G. David and Charles. 1986. 126p. trade paperback, covers clean/square, binding tight, text clean/unmarked, fine condition + Her Majesty's Tower Of London, Colonel E H Carkeet-James, Staples Press, 1953, 158p, hc w/dj, dj bumped/scuffed/shelf wear/small tears, boards bumped/scuffed, text clean, solid binding + THE TOWER: THE TUMULTUOUS HISTORY OF THE TOWER OF LONDON FROM 1078, WILSON, DEREK, CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, 1979, 257p, hc w/dj, dj bumped/scuffed/shelf wear/small tears, boards clean/square, text clean, solid binding---10.00 for all 3.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. Octavo. iv, 304 pages, indexed. Hardcover with a blue and white dust jacket, now in mylar. The jacket has a blue "Signed" label taped to the inside of the mylar at the foot of the spine. Light rubbing to the jacket, which is price-clipped. A sound copy and clean within. SIGNED by both authors on a bookplate on the half title. A sound copy with clean text. Stated Second Edition on the copyright page. Signed By Subject.

Hardcover. Illustrations from the Collection of Charles B. Turrill. (illustrator). Octavo. 8 1/4 x 5 3/4". 359pp. incl. index. Illustrated. Red cloth with embossed decoration and gilt title. Spine lightly faded and lettering dulled. Pictorial endpapers.

[Drawn by Coïdé] Original chromolithograph. Page size approx. 35.5 x 23cm. Image size approx. 31.5 x 19cm. With the original leaf of biographical text from the magazine.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Undated. Circa 1943. 8vo. Pictorial paper cover. 80 pp. plus advert pages. B/w illustrations and photos. Essays on popular and music-hall songs of the late 19th and early 20th Century. Clean and bright. Just light edge-wear to covers. VG.

Drawn by ? Original chromolithograph. Page size approx. 35.5 x 23cm. Image size approx. 31.5 x 19cm. With original leaf of biographical text.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust jacket. Sweeny, a leading American international amateur golfer, was among the High Society and financiers of the 1930s, acquainted with the Duke of Windsor. His wife was the later controversial Duchess of Argyll. During the war, he helped organise Americans to support the war effort. Plates. 384 pages plus index. Quoted postage for UK 2nd class. Overseas at least £13.

Hardcover. Condition: VG. 1st Edition. xiv, 434pp, index, illustrated with historical photographs, very clean and bright, unmarked inside and out, but for bold autographs at front fly of contributors, including Editor Lew Nicholls; as-issued without a dust jacket. Greenup County, Kentucky, home of KY author and educator Jesse Stuart. Chapter / sections include Native Americans, by Nicholls, Establishment of state and county government, by Nicholls, Transportation, by Nicholls, Aviation History of Greenup County, by Martin, The African-American Experience, by Nicholls, History of Religion, Communities: Oldtown, North Fork, Laurel, Frasure, by Kathleen Virgin-Kenney, History of the City of Greenup, by Nicholls, Weddings in Greenup, by Dunn & Roe, History of Argillite, by Harris, The History of Hunnewell, by Thomas, City of Russell History, by Nicholls, History of South Shore, Nicholls, Raceland / Worthington, Sammons, History of Wurtland, by Stafford & Nicholls, Camp Swigert, by Stafford, The City of Flatwoods, by Byrne, War, by Piatt, Byrne, and Nicholls, Industrial Development, by Peterson, Whitt, and Penkava, Education, by Webb, Sports, by Piatt, Fish and Wildlife, by Soc Clay, and Greenup County Authors, by Gifford. Scarce. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Interesting autobiography. During WWII Sweeny recruited American volunteers into the Eagle Squadrons. He knew Laddie Lucas whose signature is on the page facing the title page on a bookplate. 384pp., ills., numerous ills of Eagle squadron pilots, index. 1st Edition 1990. Signed by both authors vgc in like dw. 0.0. Signed by Both Authors and Lad.

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Second Battalion Platoon 2044. Commenced Training: 11 June 1980 / Graduated: 22 August 1980. Stains on several pages. Historic Oklahoma Bookstore on Route 66. Packages shipped daily, Mon-Friday.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Various (illustrator). First edition. A profusely illustrated five-volume collection from The Lonsdale Library, offering authoritative guides on horsemanship, hunting, shooting, and fishing, with contributions from leading sporting experts of the era. In the publisher's original brown cloth bindings.These volumes are the first trade editions.This collection comprises four volumes from The Lonsdale Library series, published by Seeley, Service & Co. Ltd. between 1929 and 1930, bringing together practical guides on horsemanship, hunting, shooting, and fishing. Richly illustrated with colour and monochrome plates, frontispieces, and in-text images.This collection consists of:Two copies of The Way of a Man with a Horse: A Practical Book on Horsemanship by Lieutenant Colonel Geoffrey Broke, Veterinary notes by Colonel Todd, and a chapter on Pig-sticking by Lieutenant colonel Arthur Brooke (1929). These copies include over ninety illustrations across 27 double sided monochrome plates and two single monochrome plates, with a frontispiece. Collated, complete. Fox-Hunting (1930) by Sir Charles Frederick, Cecil Aldin, James Andrews, et al. This copy is illustrated with four colour plates, including a colour frontispiece, and 49 monochrome plates with eighteen reproductions of hunting pictures. Collated, complete. Shooting by Moor, Field and Shore: A practical guide to modern methods, by Eric Parker, Lesie Sprake, Major Portal, et al. (1929). This copy features one hundred and fifty illustrations across nineteen double sided monochrome plates and thirteen single sided plates, including a frontispiece. Collated, complete. Trout Fishing from All Angles: A Complete guide to modern methods by Eric Taverner, with a chapter on Trout scales by G. Herbert Nall, and The Legal Aspect of Fishing by Alban Bacon (1929). With two hundred and fifty illustrations, with thirty four monochrome plates including a frontispiece, sixteen of which are double sided, with two plates in colour. In the publisher's original cloth bindings. Externally, very smart. Slight damp staining across front board and front joint of spine to one of the copies of "The Way of a Man with a Horse". Previous owner"s inscription to front free endpapers, with the previous bookseller"s discreet label to front paste down, on all copies aside from one copy of "The Way of a Man With a Horse," in which the bookseller's label appears to the rear paste down. Spines slightly faded. The odd slight handling mark to boards and spines. Slight offsetting to endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Hinges slightly strained in places, but holding firm. Pages bright and clean with one or two pots and handling marks, heavier to the fore edges and first and last few leaves. Very Good Indeed. book.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. Penn, Irving (Cover); Avedon, Richard; Lichfield, Patrick (illustrator). First Edition. 178 pages. Features: Editor's Forecast 1969 - The Best New Looks in Fashion and Beauty - 50 pages of predictions picked for success; Energy - The Untapped Powers That Can Change Your Whole Life; President-Elect Richard Milhouse Nixon; Alec McCowen - The Man Who Plays the Man Who Plays Pope Hadrian VII; Wig Versus Hair; Gorgeous photos of Marsha Hunt; Sixteen pages of Sun-Quest fashion photography in the Bahamas by Richard Avedon; The Young Life A Loft - Sculptor Peter Reginato and his wife live in a studiio atop a New York warehouse. Average wear. Unmarked. A quality copy of this excellent vintage issue.

Condition: New. Print on Demand pp. 342.

Condition: New. Print on Demand pp. 306.

Governor of Scinde, to the Army under his Command. Second Edition. Lightish browning throughout, otherwise very good in contemporary half red calf on marbled boards, a little rubbed at the extremities. xvi, 142pp. viii index. Printed at the "Times" Press by James Chesson, Bombay, Scarce, COPAC locates the BL and NLS copies only - not noted on NSTC, no copies on OCLC or RLIN. Green was Napier's Assistant Adjutant General from April 1843 until he left Sindh in 1847 and remarks of the Orders that, "They are the productions of one who, has deeply studied human nature - of one whom habit and education have made a Soldier, and who, being in early life habituated to command, was then taught the Art of War, under the immortal Moore, and the Great Duke of Wellington. They were written by one of the kindest-hearted of men, - by a stern Soldier, who understood not disobedience of orders, and who, knowing what a Soldier could do, required of him no more. Acquainted with the minutiĉ of duty, nothing escaped his eagle eye; and while punishing, with a strong-hand, insubordination and disobedience, he has ever the kind heart to overlook indiscretions, when not accompanied by vice." DNB opines that Napier, "was a man to inspire strong affection or the reverse" we can safely assume from the above that Green was of the former camp.

8vo (23.5x14.5cm), hardback, 268pp. Goodish condition. No dustwrapper. Half leather, burgundy with covered boards, gilt lettering to spine, marbled endpapers. Bookseller's label and previous owner's bookplate (F. Hobill Cole, M.D.) at front pastedown. General light wear, bumped, faded spine, corners a little rubbed and frayed, uncut, age-toned, some foxing, creased (repair?) to upper corner of title page with pencilled note, prelims and last pages browned, front hinge just starting to crack at lower edge, pp225/6 missing and replaced with laid in copies. A nice volume, notwithstanding its flaws. Pictures available on request.

Published with the approbation of His Royal Highness the Commander in Chief. Pp. [ii]+xviii+68(last blank); demy 8vo; early red morocco, lettered and ruled in gilt, the boards slightly soiled and scuffed, edges lightly rubbed; bookplate of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, inked number on verso of upper free endpaper, early inked scribble on verso of final text page, some foxing throughout; printed for T. Egerton, Military Library, Whitehall, 1816. Second edition. *Sir James Charles Dalbiac (1776-1847) was a British Army officer in the 4th light dragoons, and later a politician. In 1809 his regiment was ordered to Portugal and in July of that year Dalbiac led the left wing in the famous charge at Talavera. He served throughout the Peninsular campaigns of 1810-1812 and took part in the battle of Salamanca on 22 July 1812. Dalbiac was Member of Parliament for Ripon from 1835 to 1837. He was promoted lieutenant-general in January 1838, and made colonel of the 3rd dragoon guards a year later.

Unbound. Both Blair and James had been free-soil Democrats who were instrumental in both forming the new Republican Party in 1856 and securing John C. Fremont to run for President on its ticket. Although, Fremont was not one of the major candidates to represent the Republicans in his hat was still in the ring, and this letter suggests that he, Blair, and James were preparing to defend against lingering political charges of fraud regarding his ownership of the most important California goldfield, the Mariposa Ranch. James's letter is datelined "San Francisco / Aprl 5th 1859 reads, "My Dear Sir / At the request of Col Fremont I send you the inclosed answer to the charge made at the Attorney Genl's Office of fraud in the Survey of his Mariposa Grant." Its envelope is franked with a 10-cent green type 1 Washington stamp (Scott #31) tied to the cover by a circular New York city steamship receiving postmark. It is annotated "Uncle Sam" in the upper left corner indicating the name of the steamship that carried it out of San Francisco harbor. The article is in two columns totaling about 29" in length, with an additional 5 ½" square map. It was cut into two pieces, perhaps to facilitate mailing. The article is titled "The other Side of the Mariposa Grant," and the map of Fremont's Rancho Mariposa is titled "Map Referred to in Col. Ransom's Letter." It was prepared by Fremont's Mariposa Attorney's "Shafter, Park & Heydenfeldt" and lays out ownership details in exceptional detail. An abbreviated excerpt from the article that leaves out the details due to space constraints reads: "To the Editor of the Bulletin. . . Col. Fremont and others . . . have hitherto refrained from publicly noticing these charges. . . But lest this silence should be misconstrued we have thought it desirable to submit to the public [proof that] the present location of the Mariposas was established in conformity to the directions of the Supreme Court. . . There has been . . . ever since the survey was made so much misrepresentation [although] "the Land Commission confirmed the claim [as] being the same land described in the grant and map filed in the office of the United States Surveyor General for California, No. 21, 1851. . . The result of the final survey . . . formed a compact figure, and the lines corresponded with those of the public surveys. . ." . In 1844, the Mexican Governor of Alte California granted ten square leagues of property (70 square miles at the time) along Mariposa Creek to one of his predecessors, Juan Bautista Alvorado. The terms of this "floating" grant allowed Alvorado to select his land anywhere within a much larger region within the boundaries set by the Sierra Nevada, Merced River, Cowchilla River, and San Joaquin River. Alvorado never finalized the location of this "floating claim" as Mexicans attempting to settle there were frequently attacked by the Miwok tribe. In 1847, Fremont, who was anxious to settle along the Pacific Ocean adjacent to San Francisco, bought what he believed was such a property for $3,000 from California land speculator, Thomas Larkin. To his chagrin, he later discovered he had purchased Alvorado's grant which was located far inland in the Yosemite region. He was unable to contest the sale, because at the time he was preoccupied fighting a charge of mutiny made by his military rival, Brigadier General Stephen Kearny in a ludicrous court-martial. By the time Fremont's legal issue was behind him, the California Gold Rush was well underway, and he began to build a homestead on his grant with the hope of establishing lumbering operation. However, gold was found on his land which led to the discovery of a five-mile vein producing hundreds of pounds of placer gold each month. Overnight, Fremont became a very rich man. As he had no desire to run a mining operation himself, Fremont hired a team of San Francisco bankers to establish the Mariposa Mining Company to lease property to mining companies willing to do the hard work. Unfortunately, because of the imprecision of Fremont's 'floating' grant, squatting prospectors began to lay claim to his land. Worse, large scale mining companies did as well. To fight the squatters, Fremont had his property surveyed, and it became clear that several mine complexes were located on his land. The situation reached a head when Biddle Boggs leased the property upon which the Merced Mining Company had illegally squatted. Merced took both men to court declaring that Fremont's survey was a fraud, and the original grant did not specifically include the property's mineral rights. After numerous court decisions and counter-decisions, in a travesty of justice, in January of 1858, the California Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Merced Company in one of the most egregiously acts of judicial legislation based upon Congressional mind-reading, stating "The defendant is occupying the premises simply and solely for mining purposes, under the general license of the Federal Government. It is true that there has been no express Act of Congress creating this license, but such seems to be its will." A request for a rehearing was granted, and it was during this time that Fremont provided Thomas and Blair with the article detailing his defense against fraud charges to prevent damage to his reputation and possible political future. When the California Supreme Court revisited the case for the last time, it found in favor of Fremont after which the Merced Company and other squatters were finally forced to leave Rancho Las Mariposas. (For more information, see Grossman's "John C. Fremont, Mariposa, and the Collision of Mexican and American Law" from Selected Works of Lewis A. Grossman, Kens's "John C. Fremont and The Biddie-Boggs Case: Property Rights versus Mining Rights in Early California" in the Mining History Journal Vol 5, R. H. Banks's "Forging a Republican Party" in King of Louisiana. . ., Harrington's "The Reception of the Frémont-Robinson Letter. . ." in The New England.

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Governor of Scinde, to the Army under his Command. Lightish browning throughout, lacks front free endpaper, title page somewhat brittle at the margins and with a number of short splits, but no loss, about very good in contemporary Indian ochre sheep binding, slightly worn, but sound. xvi, 142pp. viii index. Printed at the "Times" Press by James Chesson, Bombay, Scarce, COPAC locates the BL and NLS copies only - not noted on NSTC, no copies on OCLC or RLIN. James was Napier's Assistant Adjutant General from April 1843 until he left Sindh in 1847 and remarks of the Orders that, "They are the productions of one who, has deeply studied human nature - of one whom habit and education have made a Soldier, and who, being in early life habituated to command, was then taught the Art of War, under the immortal Moore, and the Great Duke of Wellington. They were written by one of the kindest-hearted of men, by a stern Soldier, who understood not disobedience of orders, and who, knowing what a Soldier could do, required of him no more. Acquainted with the minutiĉ of duty, nothing escaped his eagle eye; and while punishing, with a strong-hand, insubordination and disobedience, he has ever the kind heart to overlook indiscretions, when not accompanied by vice." Napier is described in ODNB as "a man to inspire strong affection or the reverse" we can safely assume from the above that James was of the former camp. This copy with a number of ownership inscriptions to the title page and prefatory matter, one contemporary owner was Thomas H. Rees, 16th Bombay Native Infantry who has signed on the title page and dedication leaf.